A hackathon was conducted in AU CSSE department first floor lab. Around 23 colleges participated in the event. The participants in number was 178. It was a 36 hour event. The event was organised by startup village.
A session in startups and related information was conducted as part of Digital India Week. Sri Siva Kumar, CII, Sri Naresh of Symbiosis and others from Startup Village and IT Hill spoke about various opportunities that exist. The session was live streamed to other universities on AVIEW.
We organised a Digital India Run from Kali Temple ( RK Beach) to Yoga Village, Andhra University on the beach road. Thanks to the Physical education department who made this happen.
Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Prof GSN Raju, Rector Prof Narayana, Registrar Prof Uma Maheswara Rao, Deans, officers, Students have participated. The estimated strength was 300.
I was appointed by Government of AP as nodal officer for Digital India Week to coordinate with Deity and AP Higher education institutions.
The inauguration
The DIW started with launch of the first banner, 20th July, 2015
The Government of India has announced ‘Digital India’ which is a Programme to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. It aims at changing the manner in which governance and public services are provided to citizens. This programme also aims at delivering good governance to citizens by synchronized and coordinated engagement and both Central and State Governments. There will be paradigm shift as e-governance will change the way of the delivery of benefits in a faster and more efficient manner. The delivery of message of ‘Digital India’ to citizens and to showcase Government’s initiatives in the area of e-Governance, a formal launch of this Programme, spread over a week, is being organized shortly. The targeted groups to be engaged during ‘Digital India Week’ (DIW) would be the students and faculty members of the Universities which have online platforms (NKN, NMEICT, AICTE, MyGov etc). The major activities during Digital India Week (DIW) would not only be dissemination of information about the existing digital services/platforms, but also to promote usage & sharing of digital resources. The DIW is going to be launched on 1st July, 2015.
Andhra Pradesh state Higher Education Institutions conducted the programme during 20th – 25th July, 2015 across all universities in collaborative manner. The events include various competitions for the students within and across the the campuses of universities in the state.
A workshop was conducted on Digital India to all the officers, deans and principals of Andhra University. The Schemes like Digital Lockers and Digital India Initiatives were explained. The event was conducted in Sennate Hall, Central Administrative Office (CAO).
